Adjustable necktie-fastener.



R PEDERSEN.

ADJUSTABLE NEGKTIE FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-25.1917.

Patented. May 21,1918.

ADJUSTABLE NECKIIE-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May at, rare.

Application filed October 25, 1917. Serial No. 198,362.

Yb all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RASMUS Pnnnnsnn, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Parkersburg, Butler county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Necktie-Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in adjustable necktie fasteners, and the object of my improvement is to provide a fastening device which will permit the necktie to be properly adjusted and secured to a. collar.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the shield part of a bow tie upon which is mounted one of my adjustable fastening devices; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of a made-up four-in-liand tie with my fastening device mounted thereon; Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the kind of fastening device show in said Fig. 2; Fig. at is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 5 is an elevation of a modified form of my ad justable fastener; Fig. 6 is a perspective view of another modified form of my device; Fig. 7 is an elevation of one of my improved fasteners as combined with integral shield.

parts; Fig. 8 is an elevation of the opposite side of the device shown in said Fig. 7, and Fig. 9 is a vertical cross-section of the device taken on the broken line 99 of said Fig. 7.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My improved necktie fastening device is made up of a single resilient rod or wire bent appropriately and having approxi mated parts at which are, through most of their extent, oppositely crimped to provide button-holes or openings 5 to receive removably and adjustably the shank of a collar button. Any desired plurality of such button-holes may be provided, although two are all that are ordinarily required on the shield 1 of a bow-tie 2, but a larger number may be used when the fastening device is mounted on the shield of a four-in-hand tie 3.

In the form of the device shown in said Figs. 1 and 6, the end-parts 6 are bent oblique, with extremities 7 .passed through theshield l and bent over on the opposite have their junction 10 bent over to secure it tothe shield 1. The hooked parts 7 and 10 therefore serve to support the opposite ends of the air or crimped parts 4., thus resistlng a tendency to spread. The collar button may be inserted in either of the button-holes 5 to properly adjust the shield 1 to fit under the wings of a turn-down collar, and the resiliency of the parts at will keep them engaged with the collar button without liability of the buttons becoming detached.

The form of the device shown in Figs. 2, 3 and have the ends of the crimped rods l bent laterally oppositely in alinement at 6 then downwardly at 12 and then returned parallel to the parts l and provided with hooked extremities 7 for fastening to the shield 1. The other approximated parts 8, 9 and 10 are similar to the like parts shown in Fig. 6, although the parts 9 are not as long.

In Fig. 5, one of the parts f is left uncrimped, but the apices of the crimps on the other part a contact therewith and thus provide a plurality of button-hole spaces between them.

In Figs. 7 to 9, inclusive, are shown a modified form of the device in which the shield 17 is formed integrally with the wire part of the fastening device. The fastening device is similar to that type shown in Fig. 3, but the medial part of the wire is spread out into a relatively large elongated loop 17 before being bent to form the approximated parts 9, 8 and 4. To support the parts of this device, I supply a plate 13 placed medially over the shield loop 17 with its ends 14: and 15 bent over and overlapped on the opposite side of the shield. The middle part of the flap 15 is cut away and bent downwardly with its side-parts bent toward each other to inclose the parts 9. The extremities 7 are passed through holes in the plate 13 and its other flap 1 1 and thus serve to secure both the upper strand of the loop 17 and the upper part of the fastening device to said plate 13.

It will thus be seen that a very light, yet rigid structure is provided and that the opposite ends of the crimped rod 4: are supported so as to not become relatively displaced or too easily spread apart,

Having described my invention, what :I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A buttoning device for a neckwearshield consisting of a resilient. rod medially bent to provide a pair of jaws having a plurality of crimps with contacting apices to adjustably-receive a collar-button, the medial part of the rod being inverted) to, pass under the jaws, and the extremities of the rod members being divergently bent and brought intoitl e samecplane as the medial inverted part of the rod.

'2.*A neckwear-shield and buttoning device, comprising .a resilient, rod bent into a shield-shaped medial loopwith its ends approximated andpbent to form a pair of jaws havinga plurality of crimps with contacting apiees to adjustably receive a collarbutton.

3. A neckwear-shield and buttoning device, comprising a resilient rod bent into a shield-shaped medial loop with its ends approximated and bent to form a pair of jaws supported over and spaced from the loop,

and means for fixedly supporting the ends of said Jaws.

A. A neckwear-shield and buttoning device,comprising a'resilient rod bent into a shield-shaped medial loop with ends brought :,1 together, inverted over the;loop to provide repair of ja.ws,said jaws having a plurality oi' bnttonr-engaging crimps, and a plate se Copies ,of thispatent may: be. obtainedfor five centsieacli byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' *Washington, D. C. 

